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Former President Donald Trump has always preferred to live off someone else’s money. He’s proud of it. He’s bragged about using clever schemes to avoid paying taxes, which shifts the tax burden to the rest of us.
When he borrows our money through bank loans, he routinely and illegally overvalues his properties to get lower loan rates that he doesn’t deserve.
When his grandiose schemes fail, he declares bankruptcy, leaving his contractors and workers with near-worthless IOUs.
And when his chicanery is discovered, he’s devised yet another scheme to pay off his lawyers: he uses our Super PAC donations.
Although he’s insisted that he isn’t using Republican National Committee fundraising to pay his legal bills, it turns out that in 2023 he spent more than $54 million of donors’ money on his personal legal bills. That money came from Super PACs, which are technically barred from coordinating with Trump.
If you’ve donated to the Save America PAC or the Make America Great Again PAC, Trump is siphoning off the funds to pay his lawyers. Once again, he is gaming the system at our expense. And this is the man who would be our king.
